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رَجُلٌ خُرَجَةٌ وُلَجَةٌ رجل خرجة ولجه رجل خرجة ولجة (S, K *) and وَلَّاجٌ ↓ خَرَّاجٌ and وَلُوجٌ ↓ خَرُوجٌ (TA in art. ولج) A man frequently going, or coming, out and in: (S, K, TA:) and the second phrase [and app. the others likewise] (tropical:) a man of much cleverness, ingenuity, or acuteness, and artifice, or cunning; (K, TA;) (tropical:) a man who uses art, artifice, or cunning, in the disposal, or management, of affairs: (A:) or (tropical:) one who does not hasten in an affair from which he cannot easily escape when he desires to do so. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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